InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Even Evil Has Reincarnates ❯ Meeting Zenaku ( Chapter 26 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

DISCLAIMER-

Unfortunately, the characters herein pertain to Rumiko Takahasi…but couldn't I just wish? Eh.

Except for a select few... and the plot! Those are MINE! ALL MINE!!!!!!

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This story is rated M for Maturity.

Note: Only those words that are not frequently used in fanfics will I put a translation to. I mean, come on… we know what a BAKA is…right? If not, Google it…I did =)

Also, any and all comments are accepted. Be it negative or positive. Constructive criticism only helps and positive feedback inspires.

To those that have commented, thank you.

Also, sorry for any grammatical foolishness. I'm tired and will re-read with a clearer head.

And let us continue…

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Chapter 26: Meeting Zenaku

Kagome and InuYasha ran downstairs quickly and what they saw shocked them.

Kagome spat out, “Zenaku.”

The patrons of the club were running out tripping over one another, screaming in fear sans their family.

InuYasha stood stock still. His nose going into a craze. He definitely looked like Naraku but there was a familiar underlying scent he could not place his finger on…

Zenaku turned his head and offered Kagome an evil smirk and chuckle full of malice.

“Hello my beautiful miko. It has been too long… so sorry I could not attend your family's funeral services… my hands were a little tied…”

InuYasha snarled, “YOU SON OF A -“

Kagome's aura flashed menacingly, she started stalking towards Zenaku ignoring InuYasha's bellowing of her name.

InuYasha hurdled forward to grab Kagome's shoulder when he was launched back about 50 feet, landing straight into the bar.

He looked on disbelievingly. Had she even noticed his attempt at stopping her? What the hell was she thinking?

Ai, Sango and Miroku approached Kagome's slow predatory, unblinking, stomping figure. Sango, being the strongest, stood before her sister and friend. “Kagome-chan stop!”

Not averting her gaze but listening to the yelled plead, she did. She kept her eyes focused on her target.

Zenaku once more laughed darkly and licked his lips as he looked at Kagome. “Poor, poor Kagome. Once more, I must apologize for not being able to attend your family's funeral ceremonies. I heard it was quite empty, like your life.” Switching from amused looking to sinister, he asked, “So my dear, how about we stop this charade and you hand over the jewel, hn?”

Kagome started shaking and threw her head back and laughed. Really laughed which caused worried glances from her family and an annoyed, pissed off one from Zenaku. “What are you laughing at wench?! Do you take this as a joke? Do you want to see the remainder of your family done for?”

The miko stopped laughing and once she opened her eyes, they were struck silver. “You fucking fool, what do you take me for? Do you think I would just shrug and hand over the jewel? Did you really think that I would hand over the one thing you want most in this world after taking away what I wanted most?” She chuckled and added, “You're pretty fucking stupid if that's what you think. Oh? And for the record, you're just trying to overcompensate for being a fake half demon. You never amounted to being a man and you're still trying to be a demon and a lousy one at that you freak.” She spat the last word.

Then, in the blink of an eye, Kagome was across the club and attempted to sever Zenaku's head. Her aura was flashing in pinks, whites and silvers. An invisible wind surrounded her. “FUCK! Where did he fucking go?!”

She spun around to face everyone and no one dared approach her at the moment. Save Souta.

“Onee-san…?” He started approaching her slowly with his hands in front of him. “Kagome…”

Zenaku's dark chuckle resounded in the room, “Ku, Ku, Ku, you little bitch… maybe this half demon needs to remind you of what he is capable of…”

The whole gang tried detecting where Zenaku could be since he was no longer there physically, when all of a sudden hordes of demons appeared inside the club lead by a woman with long red hair and crystal blue eyes.

She laughed and smile, speaking in a sickening sweet voice, “Why hello there. Are you the little miko that my master is going through all this trouble for?” Cocking her head to one side, she added, “Hm… well how rude of me. My name is Hatsu…”

Kagome smirked at her, “First born, first dead.”

Hatsu laughed a mad laugh, “First dead? No sweetheart that was your family.”

“YOU BITCH!” Souta charged towards Hatsu only to be pulled by Norio. He looked onto the group.

“We need to observe first and then it is Kagome-sensei's decision as to -“

“THE FUCK IT IS!” InuYasha screamed into Norio's face.

Hatsu twirled her hair around her fingers, feigning boredom with a yawn, “Are we quite ready for some action yet? I'm quite bored.”

Kagome had her head bent and her two katanas at her side, her eyes hid behind her bangs, “You want action bitch?” Her laugh was foreign to her ears as well as the others. “Put this in your juice box and suck it.” She lifted her head and stared into Hatsu's eyes. “Purity.”

With that word said, both of Kagome's power restraint cuffs landed with a clang on the floor. When she lifted her head, her eyes were not only glowing silver but, the other colors that had swirled earlier into her aura.

Souta stood stuttering next to InuYasha who looked overly concerned. “I- um - suggest we step back about 30 to 40 feet…”

InuYasha turned to glare at Souta, “WHAT? I'm not leaving my mate here alone!”

Souta turned angrily at InuYasha and shoved him, “You won't be much fucking help if you and the youkai in your pack get purified! MOVE or I will move you myself! Now get to killing the other hundreds of demons asswipe!”

Miroku stepped forward placing a hand on Souta's shoulder, “Would a barrier help keep out her powers?”

Souta looked down in contemplation, “Honestly, I don't know Miroku… I don't think I want to risk finding out right now though…”

Sesshomaru joined in, “Brother, I think under the circumstances, this Sesshomaru agrees. This is hardly the time or place to guess what may happen to us with your mikos powers.”

Hesitantly InuYasha started backing away. “I hate being fucking useless! I need to do something! I need to help my mate!” He looked back at his mate with anguish in his eyes.

She seemed to be engulfing herself in immense power and looked deadly.

`Mate in danger….(snarls)'

`Yeah but I can't do shit right now when she turns on the anti-demon!'

`I agree, this waiting out blows…'

`Why does she get all the fun lately?'

`(Growl)' `Keh'

Removing his concealment ring, InuYasha flexed his clawed hands and smirked at the group and then at the horde of demons, “Well, you can all stand around but, I'm going to kill me some demons!” With that he sprang forward, claws outstretched, “Hijinkessou!”

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Hatsu clapped her hands together, “How pretty! Look at the colors around you! Fascinating! Quite the lightshow!”

Kagome twirled her katanas in circles and crossed them over head, and in a sharp slashing motion she thrust purification energy at Hatsu which had managed to dodge it, barely. She yelled out in pain, “YOU LITTLE BITCH! My perfect, beautiful skin! You scarred me and that hurt!”

The miko looked at her with a fake exaggerated look of pity, “Awww, really? I'm sorry I didn't mean to hurt you…”

Hatsu looked a bit taken back and said cheerily, “Really?”

Kagome snorted, “No, I meant to kill you… guess I missed…” She muttered, “Ditz.”

Snorting indignantly, Hatsu huffed, “Bitch. I guess it's time to stop playing, ne?”

Nodding Kagome responded, “Hai. Fight.”

Zenaku's incarnation removed two chopsticks from her hair and tapped them together. They turned into long sword-tipped spears. She smiled, “I'm going to rip that pretty face of yours piece by piece.”

Kagome rolled her eyes out of boredom, “Yeah yeah… planning on talking me to death?”

Hatsu stomped her foot and a second later had a very intense miko in her face, “Boo.”

Kagome round-housed her square in the stomach and Hatsu bent over in pain. Letting out a screech she charged towards Kagome with her spears in hand.

Predicting her move, Kagome ran towards the nearest wall at full speed and used it to avoid her attack.

Unlike Kagome, Hatsu had not predicted her move and was met with a palm to the nose.

“You evil little BITCH! You broke my nose!”

Kagome `tsked', “Red from a bottle, zip. Miko, three. Weren't you going to rip my face piece by piece? All that bark and no bite…”

Souta, who was busy defeating the lower level demons, groaned in the background and addressed Kagome, “Can you not toy with the psycho?!”

Kagome pouted and stomped her foot, “Kami you're no fun.”

Dropping her katanas, she kicked the legs from under Hatsu and sent her sprawling on her back. She gathered her hands and created and energy ball unlike any other seen before by the group. Tilting her head to the side, she smiled, “Bye bye.”

She blasted the ball of energy right into the incarnation's chest.

Dusting herself off, she looked at the demons that were fighting against her family and whistled, gaining their attention. With hands on hips, she narrowed her gaze at them and nodded her head towards the dead Hatsu. “Well, anyone else want a piece of me?”

The demons vanished.

She turned towards the group, who were now all rumpled and full of demon gore. She then turned to assess the damage of her club.

What was left of it anyhow.

She looked at it wordlessly and felt a heaviness within her chest. She walked up to the bar where one glass remained unscathed and picked it up staring for it one moment. Her family stood there surveying her from afar because she still had faint traces of overpowered aura that could strike. In the next moment, Kagome pitched the remaining glass into the wall and let out a screech that caused the youkai in the room to cover their ears in pain. Kagome dropped against the bar and started punching it as hard as she could, allowing all emotion rip from her chest.

She was tired of this.

Tired of fighting just to lose everything that mattered. What would be next? Her mate? Her adoptive son? The rest of her family?

“Sis…”

Kagome whipped her head up to meet the rest of her family's eyes. She shook her head a little and offered a small wry, absolutely fake smile. “I'm alright. It's okay.” She then looked over to her mate and noticed him clutching his right hand. “What happened to you?”

He looked at her for a moment, “Keh. No big deal, it'll -“

But before he could finish, Kagome held his hand and examined it, her face horror stricken, “It's human. Your hand's human…” She looked up at him, his amber eyes gentle and it just caused her to get angered at herself.

She had hurt him without noticing… how could he be so kind towards her at that moment?

“Koi… really it's ok.”

She shook her head reverently. “No InuYasha, this, “ She held his hand up. “Is not okay. I don't even remember doing this… what if I would've completely purified you? What if -”

“Ku, did you all forget about me? I'm hurt.”

Everyone whipped around to face Zenaku, who had a little boy standing next to him.

The boy couldn't be any older than five.

Kagome looked at the little boy… who had some demon heritage… she could tell from his aura…and who looked upon the group with a blank stare.

Zenaku's laugh snapped Kagome out of her reverie and the confusion was clearly on her face.

Zenaku grabbed the child who remained motionless by his hair and lifted him, “Tell me InuYasha… do you not recognize the scent of this mongrel?”

InuYasha growled his displeasure at the treatment towards the child. “Stop playing games you stupid fucker. Who's the kid and what does he have to do with any of this?”

Mumbling a chant, the child's black hair turned silver, ears appearing on the top of his small head and eyes… almost silver in color.

Smiling cynically at the still confused group, Zenaku spoke, “This brat here, is my…adoptive… son…Yoshiro.” Turning to Kagome, the smile only grew, “You are a terrible mother to not know your own child miko.”

Kagome fell to her knees, eyes widened. “H-how?” Then glaring at the half demon that had destroyed her life, she yelled, “You are lying! My son died! You KILLED him!”

With one last loathing gaze, full of hatred, “I absorbed him and incubated him until he was born and he will be the one to kill you and take the jewel. Your own son will bring me the jewel!” In a cloud of miasma, he disappeared.

Letting out a cry of rage, Kagome started punching the floor; to the point her knuckles began bleeding. The women of the group were all sobbing and holding on to their significant others…and InuYasha, stood stunned.

His son.

Their son.

He was alive and in the clutches of Zenaku.

“Brother… you must remain strong… help your mate… her mind and soul are nearly broken.”

InuYasha looked at his brother, who surprisingly looked sympathetic. They stared at one another for a moment, communicating silently when InuYasha heard his mates next words, “Why couldn't I just have died? Why everyone I love? Why my son?”

Dragging herself to her feet, she stood still sobbing and spreading her arms out, “COME GET ME YOU SON OF A BITCH! YOU WIN!”

Needing to take immediate action, InuYasha grabbed her by the scruff of her neck none too gently and somehow, instinctively, she knew he was not happy with her at the moment. She could hear Maemi and Rin's gasp. Not releasing her, he walked her back up towards her office, while excusing himself from the others for a moment.

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Once they reached Kagome's office, he released her roughly.

Kagome's eyes were tear-filled as she rubbed the back of her neck, for once in a very long time terrified. No matter how abrasive or rude he had been, he had never ever, hurt her physically and for once, she hated not knowing what discipline a dog demons mate faced. She felt as she deserved it though. One time too many she had been an utter disappointment to him. She constantly disobeyed him and she tested his Alpha male status.

And she had gotten their son into the clutches of that monster.

Lowering her head and forgetting how to breathe, she prepared for the worst. When she waited a couple of moments and nothing happened, she carefully lifted her head and found a stricken looking InuYasha staring at her. She tried to say something but, no words were able to leave her mouth.

InuYasha stepped forward and grabbed the miko into a tight embrace, feeling his body tremble and his voice choked. “Why did I just smell fear off of you? You can face the worst of demons and not one ounce of fear yet, I had to get you to shut up somehow and I can smell your fear, see you tremble and hear you stop breathing.”

Kagome let out a sob into his chest and shook her head. “It's not you I'm scared of. I fear that you'll be too disappointed in me and that'll cause you to discipline me which in turn might cause you to hate me. I fear that, not you, not physical pain. I've left you in the sidelines and you are my mate, my soon to be husband and my alpha...” She hiccupped, “Our son! I ignore all those things and my biggest fear is you won't tolerate it for much longer! Not only that, I hurt you physically InuYasha!” She pushed back slightly and looked into his hurt eyes, “I physically hurt you and I can't remember doing it! It scares the hells out of me to think I could kill you accidentally!”

She dropped to the floor by his feet drained both physically and emotionally and whispered, “I don't deserve you… I don't deserve to live…”

InuYasha dropped right in front of her, picking her up and setting her on his lap, setting his head on hers. “Wench, if you were able to put up with me being an asshole for four years, I can put up with you being a bitch for some time. I understand your fears as they were mine too but, koi, you have to learn to trust me fully. Didn't we already have this talk?”

He felt her nod her head and sniffle, “Yeah but when you lose everything it's so hard…”

He then grabbed her chin to make her look him in the eyes, “And what is all this talk about dying? Kagome, don't you know I couldn't survive without you?”

He took a deep breath, trying to remain patient for his beloved mate. “I'm sorry about scruffing you. It's just hard to get ya to shut up and my animal instinct took over. I'm sorry. I would never hurt you physically Kagome, you know that right?”

She nodded quietly and sighed. “Our son koibito… I lost our son… he's alive…”

He wanted the right thing to say without making it seem like he was being an insensitive bastard. “I know koishii… we'll get him back…”

Turning herself on his lap until she was facing him completely, she shook her head, “Was his scent like yours and your brothers?”

InuYasha had recognized a familiar smell but, he couldn't confirm nor dent because it was so heavily ingrained with Zenaku's, “It smelled familiar but, couldn't tell you if it is or isn't sweetheart…”

Rubbing her face with her hands, more tears spilled over. How much more could her heart take?

Placing his forehead against hers, he kissed the tip of her nose, “Kagome… please do not give up on me koi… please don't ever say you want to die… those words kill me to even think about…”

She just closed her eyes and heaved a sigh and he grabbed her chin and held it, “Open your eyes and look at me Kagome.”

She did as he asked and the heartbreak in those depths was almost intolerable. Placing her hand over his heart, he looked at her, eyes full of promise. “Whatever happens… it will always be you and me wench.”

Nodding once again with tears in her eyes, she leaned forward and placed a chaste kiss on his lips, whispering one word full of promise.

“Forever.”

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